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FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1018
There is no greater tign of holiness
than the rejoicing in another's good.
•— GEORGE HERBERT.
AUTOS ESSENTIAL
AUTOMOBILES, it is to be noted,
are no longer classed among
non-essentials by the govern
ment, and automobile industries are
not to be closed wholesale to make
room for war industries, as was fore
casted last year. The reason is two
fold. In the first place we are be
ginning to learn that the difference
between essentials and non-essen
tials in trade is not to be decided off
hand, and secondly that the auto
mobile has proved its worth in such
times of stress as those of the pres
ent.
The day of the "pleasure car" Is
past. The automobile has become a
passenger car and Its use in this
capacity will increase constantly
with the growing embargo upon pas
senger traffic on steam railroads.
Unquestionably, some of the auto-'
mobile manufacturing production
must be given over to the making
of munitions and materials used in
the war, for which the factories are
ideally adapted, but it would not do
to close down any automobile fac
„ tory entirely, disband its organiza
tion and lose its productivity after
the war when it will be needed to
help keep reconstructed business
going. No; the answer lies in an
other direction, and it is to permit
the making of as many cars as the
public will buy this year, depend
ing upon the good sense of car pur
chasers to make the best possible
use of their machines, to speed up
business deliveries, to carry men to
and from business and to and from
work and between towns, taking the
place of accommodation trains re
moved to permit the passage of
freight.
Nor need the phantom of a "gaso
line famine" deter the owner of an
automobile from the use of his car.
The gasoline shortage is not nearly
so serious as it has been made to
appear by some who hope to find an
excuse therein for advance of prices.
As A. C. Bedford, chairman of the
Petroleum War Service Committee,
said recently, the winter weather,
with its resulting light domestic de
mand. has permitted the reserve
Blocks to be increased by millions of
gallons. It is not gasoline, but fuel
oil, which the government needs ur
gently and since gasoline is a by
product of fuel oil the more fuel oil
used the greater the quantity of
gasoline produced. The prospects
are that the government will be able
to meet all our own war demands as
well as those of the allies and still
have left a plentiful supply for users
of trucks and pleasure cars.
Bank deposits have been Increased
by billions of dollars. There is
plenty of money with which to keep
industry active If the demand Is kept
up, and since upon the volume of
business done depends our ability to
stand the constantly growing stress
of war expenditures we should go
slowly indeed in pronouncing this or
that line of manufacture '"non-es
sential." And as for the patriotic
rr.an who desires an automobile and
has the money with which to buy it,
but is hesitating because of the war,
let him go place his order, particu
larly if he intends to use it for the
furtherance of his business or to re
lieve the overcrowded railroads
and trolley lines. There la every
reason why he should have the car
find no good reason why he should
not.
With snow entrenchments thrown
up on every curbline and drifts block
ing roads and streets in every direc
tion, there are few who have the
hardihood nowadays to talk about the
"old-fashioned winter."
THE FUEL RESTRICTIONS
THE more the effects of Dr. Gar
field's fuel restrictions are
studied, the more it appears
the Fuel Administrator has thrown
a bunch of monkey wrenches into
the business cogs of the country. No
one can doubt that the federal au
thorities acted with the best of In
tentions. Nobody will think of dis
obeying or dodging any of the reg
' ulations. We are solidly back of the
KWiD'AY "EVENING,
government In this, the first test of
our willingness to sacrifice for the
winning of the war. But that need
not prevent Just and fair criticism
of the wisdom of the order.
Regardless of the results, which
it would appear are bound to be dis
astrous to business and to labor, al
though doubtless a very large quan
tity of coal may be saved for do
mestic uses, the cause of the pres
ent conditions and responsibility for
them are the essential considerations
at this moment. Placing the blame
,is necessary, so that, If possible, the
remedy may be found. Treating
symptoms is no longer the practice
of the wise physician. The seat of
the disease is his constant thought,
and so it must be in this case.
Back of all the trouble lies the
starvation of the railroads over a
period of years. Wages have gone
constantly up, and very properly so
to meet advances in living costs;
operating expenses of all kinds have
been increased and the cost of new
equipment and new construction has
rocketed along with everything else.
The railroads saw their expenses
steadily rising and their net earn
ings slowly decreasing. They were
doing more business than ever be
fore and making less. But the gov
ernment kept right on their trail,
clamping down the lid more tightly
every year and refusing them ad
vances of rates. There was but one
end. Rolling stock and motive power
went to pot and the roadbeds de
teriorated because nobody wanted to
buy railroad securities or loan the
roads money. Then we went to war
and at once the added strain on the
roads began to tell.
"Priority orders" commenced to
play a part in the general confusion.
Garfield got into a controversy with
Hoover as to the priority of coal over
food, with the result that for five
days the railroads moved neither
coal nor food, awaiting the "scrap"
at Washington to be decided.
These things are back of all the
trouble; these and the selection of a
theorist, instead of an acknowledged
expert, or experts, to handle the fuel
f-ituation. The choice of a college
president to solve the fuel problem
was a blunder that a more prac
tical President would not have
made. There are three factors nec
essary in coal production and dis
tribution. The cp-operation of the
operators, the mine workers and the
railroads are essential. The wise
thing, it would seem, would have
been to have selected a big operator,
a big traffic manager and a man like
John Mitchell, for example, as a fuel
administration board. In that* way i
the frightful blunders from which
we are now suffering would have I
been avoided.
But by-gones are by-gones and
all we can do now is to make
the best of a bad situation and con
line our criticisms to constructive
lines. Calling the fuel administra
tor hard names will do no good, and
a seeming division of the American
public would be but encouragement
to the enemy.
There are several outstanding de
\ elopments that may give comfort to
those who have been fearsome of
the bogey of government ownership,
and one of them is that the Amer
ican people are getting their All of
autocratic rulings from Washington,
which might be repeated at any
time if war provisos should be ex
tended into days of peace following
the war. Another is that Secretary
McAdoo, taking over control of the
railroads to relieve the congestion,
has gotten them into a worse mud
dle than before he took charge. Gov
ernment ownership has been given a
body-blow by the developments of
the past week.
Professor E. J. Decevee occupied a
large place In the musical circles of
Harrisburg, and his passing Is a dis
tinct loss to the community. Affable
and always interested In all that goes
to make the city attractive, he will
be greatly missed.
PATRIOTIC CRITICISM
IN a conservative statement re
garding the patriotic limits of
criticism former President Taft,
who certainly cannot be accused of
lack of support of the President, de
clared that facts should be made
known even If they may be uncom
fortable. This Is precisely the view
of the average patriotic citizen.
There is no occasion for disclosure
of military secrets which may be of
benefit to the enemy and there should
be a careful avoidance of anything
of that sort, but the smug attitude of
selfsufflciency adopted by certain of
the bureaucrats at Washington is
giving rise to a spirit of indignation
throughout the country which is
likely to burst forth in a general
protest.
Just now Secretary of War Baker
is sharing the popular distrust with
Dr. Garfield, the Fuel Administra
tor. Both these officials are com
ing in for widespread criticism,
much of which is the outgrowth of
their own indifference to the sug
gestions of men of large experience
In the particular things which have
been most under discussion.
Mr. Taft says Secretary Baker's
"commendable desire to learn shown
in his early days In the department
seems to have gone." Too often the
attitude of Government officials Is
that of wise men who cannot be en
lightened upon any subject and the
result of this attitude Is to discour
age bigger men tendering their good
offices and the results of their ex
perience for the benefit of the coun
try In this crisis.
Nothing has done so much to im
pair the confidence of the country In
Secretary Baker's Judgment as his
misleading statement recently re
garding the preparedness of the
Army.
President Wilson has been given
tremendous power and the people
are disposed to support him In every
necessary measure for the prosecu
tion of the war, but the time is com
ing, if It is not at hend, when there
must be no withholding from the
people of the Information to which
they are entitled. Reasonable cen
sorship of facts regarding the mili
tary plans of the Government Is ex
pected, but It doesn't follow that the
people shall be treated as children
from whom the facts must be con
cealed. Mr. Taft says further—
Mr. Raker's attitude suggests
tne question, What are the patrio
tic limits of public investigation
into the preparation of the Execu
tive for war'?. Investigation should,
course, be prompted solely by
the motive to help the prosecution
of the war. Hostile partisan in
vestigations for political purposes
even in time of peace are rarely
useful. They tend to paralyze the
Initiative of bureau chiefs and
frighten them from their proper
responsibility. They consume
. e . effort of the bureaus in
making defense which should be
devoted to executive work. In
time of war they are despicable.
„ n the other hand. Impartial in
vestigation and publicity pene
trate that smug executive satis
faction which regards substantial
aerects as either immaterial or
inevitable. Those responsible are
thus put on their mettle. Their
rear of Just criticism moves them
to strenuous effort. ■
Unless and until the people are
thoroughly informed as to the
things which are proper for them to
know they will not have the same
interest in the prosecution of the
war which they should have under
present circumstances. The more
they are told as to real conditions
the more earnest will be their sup
port of the government in the tre
mendous responsibilities which have
been assumed in this world war.
T>o Hue* u
'PtltKOn&KUua
By the Ex- Committeeman
Arrogance of The Democratic
State bosses in decreeing that Con
gressman Arthur G. Dewalt, former
Democratic State chairman, shall be
opposed for renomination and in at
tempting to set up opposition to Con
gressman H. G. Steele in the old
Palmer district as well as their ma
chinations to choke off opposition to
Democratic congressmen in other
districts appear to have stirred up
considerable criticism and there are
chances that some of the latent feel
ing against the ruling class may crop
out in the form, of a movement to
make Vance C. McCormick or any
one else slated on the banks of the
Potomac fight for his nomination.
The humor of the situation is that
in their desire to show power the
bosses have aroused Charles B.
Spate, the margrave of Boyertown,
who seems to think that he should
have the job and who is inclined to
dispute the vote of Berks which
would ordinarily swing the nomina
tion. Another funny thing is that
the bosses have solemnly declared
that the people wanted their choice.
Naval Officer William M. Croll,
whereas his statement is that he is
not running of his own action and
will, but because bidden to.
And then the bosses have placed
their seal of approval on some legis
lative leaders who aspire to renomi
nation and who voted very, very
"wet" last session.
—Congressmen Kelly and Camp
bell, the Allegheny county accidents,
who slipped in because of treachery
li. certain quarters, may have op
position for renomination at the
hands of Democrats, while there are
signs of hatchet waving in the York-
Adams and the Northumberland dis
trict over the nominations for seats
now held by Brodbeck and Lesher.
—As anticipated yesterday High
way Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil
last night announced that he is "a
Republican candidate for Governor.
"Mr. O'Neil's statement bears un
questionable marks of O'Neil's au
thorship as it attacks Senator Pen
rose and Senator William C. Sproul.
The announcement created no sur
prise. but there was a great deal of
speculation about the city as to
what would be done next at the Cap
itol. Governor Brumbaugh refused
to comment upon the statement un
til he had read it.
—The Democratic newspapers hail
the appearance of O'Neil as a can
didate for Governor as meaning a
big Republican fight, and the Phila
delphia Ledger says that hope of
harmony fades. The North Ameri
can merely gives the statement with
out comment. The same course is
pursued by other newspapers ex
cept the Philadelphia Inquirer,
which tartly remarks upon Mr
O'Neil's references to himself
is M? ns i dere d lively that Mr.
ONeil will add to his statement
next week at the dinner to be given
in his honor at Pittsburgh. The fact
that he made such savage jabs at
Penrose and Sproul Is taken to mean
that the men who counseled a more
conservative announcement were
overruled at the conference at the
Governor's mansion and that the fur
will fly from now on.
—Whether Senator Sproul will
make any reply Is doubtful, and It
Is believed that the dozen or more
men mentioned as receptive candi
dates will await developments Con
cerning the mention of favorite sons
in various counties the Philadelphia
Press says: "Almost anyone who
feels that he could fit Into the cTov
ernorship can have his day now and
some of them will need to hurrv for
their days will be few. If it shall
wtVw.n h H nt thP ™ ~ s to be * cu
test It will be a man's size affair."
. S L ate
friends of O Nell have been spreading
the story that if the highway com
missioner came out for Governor in
a statement br(nthlng fire and brim
stone, Senator Sproul would refuse
to become a candidate as he prefer
red to be an aspirant for the chair of
the Governor who could unite all
factions.
—This makes very interesting the
declaration of Senator Penrose at
Philadelphia yesterday that no slate
had been made at Pittsburgh.
O Neils statement charges that
Sproul was "hand-picked" but the
Penrose statement denies it. Senator
Penrose said: "Those stories from
Pittsburgh about an agreement upon
a state ticket were without founda
tion. They represented the gossip in
the hotel lobbies and were not the
result of any conference upon the
subject. The presence of some of the
men mentioned at the dinner to
former Mayor Armstrong probably
accounted for the grouping of some
of the names on an alleged ticket.
As far as I am concerned. I am not
committed t® any candidate for a
state office to be filled this year. I
look for the candidates to formally
announce themselves soon, and then
it will be time to discuss the most
available men for the nominations at
the May primaries." The latter re
mark was also made by the Senator
last week after his return from Pitts
burgh.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer says
that Senator Penrose "repudiated re
ports from Pittsburgh that he and
his friends had agreed upon a set of
candidates." It also says that Kvan
Jones, chairman of the McKean
county Republican committee, would
like to be a candidate for Congress
man-at-large on the Rwubllc&n
ii iii iiii mi mi i H I in in m ill
ticket, but lntlmatea that he may run'
for the Twenty-flrst district Beat.
Congressman C. H. Rowland will not
run again.
—Ex- James Gay Gordon, of
Philadelphia, last night declared that
his name had been used without his
sanction in connection with the
Democratic nomination for Govern
or. It is said that the judge has been
urged to become a candidate by a
number of upstate friends.
—The Philadelphia Ledger to-day
says: "Direct, emphatic and vigor
ous notice was served on the slender
Vare-Smith majority in Common
Council yesterday by the newly-elect
ed Independents, who are more
largely represented than in any of
the recent years, that all proposed
legislation will be searchlngly ex
amined into and studied and that
if necessary the sharpest opposition
will develop. It was the opening fire
In what may prove to be one of the
liveliest sessions of Councils in years.
The meeting yesterday, although not
the first for the new Council, was the
first at which real business could be
touched upon. The independents
plan a test vote of strength at an
early hour."
—Edwin F. Warner, of Weather
ly, Fuel Administrator of Carbon
county, and former Chief Engineer
Dr. J. E. Waaser, of East Mauch
Chunk, were appointed at Mauch
Chunk yesterday directors of the
Middle Coal Field Poor District,
comprising the upper portion of Car
bon county and the lower end of
Luzerne county by Judge Barber.
Mr. Warner was filling the unex
pired term of the late Samuel West,
of Weatherly, and now starts on a
five-year term of his own. Dr.
Waaser succeeds William H. Gibson,
of Lansford, whose term expired.
The appointments carry an annual
salary of SSOO each and expenses.
WHY COAL IS SCARCE
While many Important factors en
ter Into the problem, It Is perfectly
obvious that the fundamental cause
Is that the government utterly neg
lected national preparedness; that
the. administration took no meas
ures to meet an inevitable emer
gency the warning shadow of which
was projected across our pathway
for more than two years. This in
ertia and lack of foresight might be
Incredible were it not a matter of
current record, in the testimony of
the secretary of war, that the gov
ernment made not a move to pro
vide arms or ammunition or uni
forms or any other necessary of na
tional defense until after making a
formal declaration of war which
was two months after Germany had
proclaimed hostilities and the Unit
ed States had taken the fateful step
of severing diplomatic relations.
It was not until last August,' when
the country had been at war for
four months and a half, that solu
tion of the fuel problem was under
taken. Congress gave to the Presi
dent virtually autocratic powers
ever food and fuel, and a few weeks
later he named as national fuel ad
ministrator Dr. Harry A. Garfield,
president of Williams College. The
tremendous duties and responsibil
ities of the position manifestly re
quired that it be filled by a man
possessing extraordinary force, ex
ecutive genius and intimate knowl
edge of the factors of production
and distribution. Doctor Garfield
obviously had no such equipment;
his principal qualifications seem to
have been that he was a pacifist
and had been an ardent advocate of
President Wilson's re-election upon
the ground that he had "kept us out
of war."
Before making the appointment,
President Wilson had proclaimed a
maximum price for bituminous coal
at the mines, with penalties for sell
ing at higher rates. He acted with
out full knowledge, for the prices
were so low that thousands of small
mines those working thin veins
with meager machinery—were com
pelled to shut down. The action
was based upon a theory that price
was the vital consideration, whereas
production was the all-important
matter; and the result was a reduc
tion of millions of tons in the bitu
minous supply during months when
it could have been marketed most,
readily. I
And of course this was ultimately ;
felt by the users of anthracite.
When the little bituminous mines
ceased operations, their customers
demanded supplies from the big
mines that could sell at the low;
prices fixed, thus taking from the j
general market fuel that would have 1
been available; bituminous which
ordinarily would have come to
Philadelphia was taken by districts
containing numberless closed mines, j
And the scarcity of bituminous na
turally increased the demands of
industry for anthracite, so that fac
tories came into competition with
hcuusehold consumers.
Later the President fixed the mine
price of anthracite, but in this case
made a rate higher than the opera
tors had asked. Bituminous pro
duction, which could have been
stimulated was discouraged, and
extra profits were given to aijthra
cite production, which could hardly
be increased because the industry
was already running at top speed.
A Delusion
A large number of fanatics In the
United States seem to be laboring
under the delusion that the American
troops were sent to France for the
purpose of enforcing prohibition in
that country.—Springfield Union.
Guns and Blueprints \
The Browning gun may be a hun
dred times more efficient than Che
Lewis, but it can be said, without
fear of contradiction by partisans of
either gun, that no blueprint ever
killed a German. —From the Out
lcok.
Boys, She's a Bear
W. H. Ainsworth and Miss Ima
Bear, of Roodhouse, were visitors in
the city Wednesday. Jacksonville
Courier.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR"
HOW ABOUT SALOONS?
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I wonder how many of our good
American citizens are Just "s'Jzling"
with indignation at the fact that
saloons and playhouses, etc., should
be permitted to remain open during
these five days when our factories
and plants (manufacturers of war
munitions), the very things that
would lead us on to victory, should
be stopped. The coal consumed by
these places of amusement and the
men who go there to get "something
to warm them up" could be used
to a better purpose. It would help
make a few more ships, a lot more
guns and many of the other much
needed things.
It is not for us to question our
government or our great -men at
the head of It, but a cog or some
thing must have slipped when this
bill went through. Can you Imagine
the much hated, terrible Wilhelm
permitting such a thing? And It's up
to us to "beat him to It."
A CITIZEN.
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WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND ... By Brigg, \
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Cowrltht 11T A br Tb* Trlbun* Anotlatlon (M*n fork Tribunal
Bacheller at Camp Dix
By LIiOYD S. GRAHAM, Staff Correspodent
TALES of German atrocities in
this war are under the actual
happenings instead of over
rated, according to a statement made
by Irving Bacheller In a meeting of
National Army officers at Camp Dix
recently.
He stated 'that his information
came from English officers and en
listed men whom he met on the
western front. He said it was com
monly believed among the allied
lighters in France that the only
good German was a dead one. Stor
ies of cruelties and inhuman acts
which the Germans did to allied
prisoners and the inhabitants of the
Teuton-invaded countries were noth
ing short of blood-curdling. Mr.
Bacheller said he believed them and
believed also that America's treat
ment of German soldiers must be
stern and thorough.
Because of the fact that the
North Country sage returned from
Europe a few weeks ago, where he
was the guest of the English For
eign Office on the western front, the
Eastern Department of the Y. M.
C. A. Work Council arranged a
speaking appointment covering two
days at Camp Dix. In the early
evening he spoke to the National
Army men, many of whom were
from Northern New York, giving
humorous selections from his books.
On the first evening he described
some of his war experiences to a
group of officers after the enlisted
men had left the "Y" building. The
group sat about the big stove In
Building No. 6 and Mr. Bacheller was
presented by H. E. Parker, building
secretary. The author of "Eben
Holden" settled comfortably down
in his chair and told his story. The
group resembled nothing so much
as an old-fashioned North Country
gathering around the country store
stove on a winter's evening, wait
ing for the 6.10 train to come into
the "deypo" with the evening mail.
He held the officers spellbound for
Coming and Going
fFrom the Cleveland Plain Dealer.]
A newspaper friend of ours, whose
duties keep him up o' nights entered
a downtown restaurant at a late
hour Tuesday evening. He glanced
at the clock, then at the calendar,
then at the menu, from which he or
dered a frugal repast. Then he wait
ed, nervously.
At the enrl of ten minutes he suc
ceeded In catching his waiter's eye.
"Look here, how long am I going
to have to wait for that grub I or
dered?" he inquired.
"Oh, I guess it won't be long,
now," yawned the waiter. "In a
hurry?"
"In a hurry? Say, I ordered a
meal without meat because it Is
meatless day, and If I have to wait
five minutes longer it will be wheat
less day and I won't get a darned
thing!"
Must Be Terrible
A patient came into the office with
some bad symptoms —a little vagrue,
but still bad.
"Do you have head noises?"
asked the physician.
"Yes; what do you mean by head
noises?"
"Do you hear ringing in your
ears?"
"Oh, yes—something fierce. I
hear It all the time."
"Terrible. Why, sometimes I can
hear It fifty feet away!"— From the
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wish 'Em Joy of It
[From the Chicago News.]
After experience with men's work
for the period of the war, we doubt
whether women will ever go back
to washing dishes. The government
will have to "take over" dlshwash
-1 lng.
an hour and a half, while he told
them of his experiences under shell
fire, in the trenches, at the base
hospital and his journey to the front.
"I stood at one of the biggest lines
of communication one day," said he.
"The traffic was heavier than it is
on Fifth avenue at 3 o'clock on a
sunny afternoon. It seemed as if
all the nations of the earth were go
ing up to the end of the world.
"Frivolous France is no more.
When someone sent unclean plays
down from Paris for the entertain
ment of the poilu near the front,
thinking that was the kind of en
tertainment they wanted, the poilu
sent back word, 'That is not what
we want. We are not pigs.' It
means a lot to those men to see
their dearest friends shattered to
bits beside them on the firing line.
They have changed.
"In England before the war there
was a very well-defined degeneracy.
But that Is changing now. A friend
of mine went to an English home
to tea one afternoon. The hostess
said,' 'Have you heard of the great
honor which has come to this
house?' The guest admitted that
he had not. 'Our son was killed in
France two weeks ago.'"
In this connection with the re
turn of high ideals to the people
engaged in the war because of the
sacrifices they are making, Mr.
Bacheller spoke in the hiprhest terms
of the Y. M. C. A. In the war. He
declared It Is the one great "spirit
ualizing factor" In this war.
"When the war is I think
we will all say It was'a good thing.
The price we are paying is tre
mendous, but I think It will be
worth while in world regeneration."
"Optlmisi with a capital O and
quoted, was the keynote In Mr.
Bacheller's talk to the officers. He
said there could be no doubt that
the ultimate victory would be with
the Allies and, despite the suffering,
the effect for good on the peoples
engaged was evident already, even
'ln America.
RIGHTEOUS WRATH
There are many kinds of hate, as
many kinds of fire;
And some are fierce and fatal with
murderous desire;
And Some are mean and craven, re
vengeful, selfish, slow,
They hurt the man that holds them
more than they hurt his foe.
And yet there is a hatred that puri
fies the heart,
Ihe anger of the better against the
baser part.
Against the false and wicked,
against the tyrant's sword.
Against the enemies of love and
all that hate the Lord. '
O cleansing indignation, O flame of
righteous wrath.
Give me a soul to see thee and fol
low in thy path!
Save me from solflsli virtue, arm me
for fearless fight.
And give mo strength to carry on
a soldier of the Right!
—Henry Van Dyke In tho Outlook.
Worth the Money
Our credits to the Allies have now
reached the neat little sum of $4,000,-
000,000. But wo should not feel
that we are getting stung by any
means. The English fleet alone has
earned that much by standing be
tween us and Helgoland while we or
dered our uniforms and rifles.—Sa
vannah News.
Proper Folk
[From the Providence Journal.]
Secretary Daniels recommends
Commander Christian Peoples for
promotion to the rank of rear admi
ral. In this war for the spiritual
future of the race a man with
name like that belongs at the front.
JANUARY 18, 191SL
LABOR NOTES
The executive board of Chicago
Broom and Whisk Manufacturers
voluntarily Increased wages fifteen
per cent, over the scale of the
signed wage agreement with the
Broom and Whisk Workers' Union.
More than 3,000 men are enrolled
In military hospitals' vocational
training classes in Canada and more
than 900 so disabled that they can
not return to their former work are
receiving instruction to fit them for
new occupations.
Brewery Workmen's International
reports membership gains during
the three years as follows: 1914,
2,933; 1915, 4,820; 1916, 6,004. Total,
13,757.
The Russian miner produces from
10,000 to 12,000 puds (a pud is 40
pounds) coal to 28,000 to 30,000
puds produced In the same time by
the American miner.
Of the more than 450 applicants
who took recent examinations for
positions in the post office at Wash
ington, D. C., over 75 per cent, were
women.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
▲ VICTIM OF :
THE TIMES. ;*\S
Please help a Msg?
poor man who llPi
lost all his jr\//
money in de A
last six months. 'J
How did you yfi
lose it? f
• übscrlptlon
WHERE THE MONTDY IS.
"Jones sayw he wanta to go into the
country and be a farmer."
"Because of his love for nature?*
"That's what he says. But I think
tt'a Just plain advice."
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didn't your fj
■tenogr show v
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THATB OPEN TOO.
6on—Pa, what la an open wlntert
Pa —Perhaps lfe 4 winter in the
tranche*
finratng GUjat
Just byway of Illustrating that
the people who are protesting
against the plan of feeding corn
dosed with strychnine to the crows
which flock about the state and es
pecially in this section, are barking
up the wrong tree, Seth E. Gordon,
Assistant Secretary of the State
Game Commission, has made some
calculations and experiments. In
one line he fed a chicken half a
grain of strychnine, straight, and
the chicken thanked him for the
stimulant The same amount of
strychnine It has been demonstrated
by examination of stomachs of crows
and by mathematics would kill thir
* Cr °T 3 ' He found that a chicken
ate 209 grains of corn which had
been loaded with half a grain of
s rychnine and did not mind it while
examination of contents of a lot of
crows showed an average of seven
The o Comm!i?'i nS • each "tomaeh.
usinr l"n < l nß men have b e en
half a hnahfi ?"^ of st Tchnlne to
it is eatlmnt i° i sh ®" ed corn, which
nels t out 60 ' 000 ker
to kill n tak es seven dosed grains
should L? W , , that half bushel
words 7 ' ooo or ,n other
words, that it takes a fifth of a
to Un mlke th th°e f hi I ln of tho polson
n ® black-coated long dis
tance flyer cease from troubling- the
tSShSn. 1 ? 0 bßaUty ° f 11 '® the
mmn wnn o *f not a PP ear to worry
L Ur J keys or Pheasants any
more than it does a chicken. They
seem to be merely tuned up by a
dose of poison that would kill a man
in snort order.
• •
a(imi nlstration is not
without its humorous sides. The
other day a man from the soft coal
regions who has some mines and a
wide acquaintance, blew into the
Capitol and after hearing the hard
luck stories of his friends ln this
section who have half a ton in the
cellar asked:
•/Why don't you burn soft coal?"
Believe we'll try it," chimed in
a couple of men.
i All I'll send you a car."
said the man.
There were smiles all around and
then he threw a bucket of cold
water with the remark, "But, you'll
have to arrange about the car ser
vice.
• •
st ate of New Jersey seems to
think well of the codes arranged
by the State of Pennsylvania for the
safeguarding of people who work in
all kinds of industrial establish-
I ments. Several of the codes have
been taken to Trenton and applied
to conditions in New Jersey. Hear
ings will be held on them soon. The
importance of the work is that sev
eral of the eastern states will then
have about the same regulations.
* .
James G. Glessner, the York law
yer who was here the other day to
appear before the State Board of
Pardons, is a great admirer of the
new course of the Country Club of
Harrisburg. When he was here
there was about two feet of snow
about the Capitol and he gravely
asked if golf could be played on the
new course with snowshoes. skis and
sleds. "The hills are suitable," said
he.
• • •
"Some rather curious mlnglings of
service are going to be noticed about
the railroads here ln the next few
weeks." said a railroad man in talk
ing about the federal control of
railroads. "You see Reading cars
on Pennsylvania trains now and
Cumberland Valley passenger
coaches going to Williamsport. We
see Fort Wayne cars on locals on
the Northern Central and Southern
railroad cars on through trains. Wait
until they begin to run in the en
gines from the west to help out in
the eastern congestion. There will
be a grand conglomeration of names
and then you will commence to see
locomotives bearing "U. S. A."
When the state takes over the
abandoned right of way of the
Lackawanna railroad In Lackawanna
and Susquehanna counties there will
be half a dozen main highways in
Pennsylvania with names of historic
Interest. There will be the William
Penn, which traverses the state and
goes through Harrisburg; the Lin
coln, which is part of a national
highway; the National road; the
Susquehanna trail which follows tha
Susquehanna and goes through this
city and Sunbury; the Perry high
way from Pittsburgh to Erie and the
Sullivan Trail which goes over roads
upon which Sullivan's men marched
to avenge Wyoming. The common
wealth will co-operate with the
counties and municipalities in mak
ing the improvements.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—William M. Croli, who will run
for Congress in the Berks-Lehigh
district, was a Wilson delegate to
the Baltimore convention.
—Secretary of Agriculture Charles
E. Patton Is homo from a visit to
southern states.
—Congressman Thomas S. Crago,
who is a Philippine veteran, is tak
ing a big interest in the new Re
serve Militia.
—Hugh Gilmore, Wllllamsport
postmaster, just reappointed, has
long been prominent in Democratic
affairs up the West Branch.
—Oliver M. Wolf, well-known
lawyer, has been elected president
of the Penn Wheelmen, one of Read
ing's oldest clubs for the fourteenth
time.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg people have
saved expenditure of a lot of
gasoline by the "Carry home"
order?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Seven lines of stagecoaches ran
to Harrisburg in 1800.
How About Under Cover?
[From the Birmingham News.]
There was nothing In Chicago's
latest catastrophe to remind citi
zens of the big Windy City Are.
When the Day Is Done
I have eaten a bale
Of spinach and kale,
And I've never raised a row.
I have swallowed a can
Of moistened bran
And I feel like a brlndle cow.
I am taking a snack
From the old haystack
In the evening shadows gray.
And I'm glad, you bet,
At last to get
To the end of a meatless day.
Comfort of the Scriptures
For whatsoever things were writ
ten aforetime were written for our
learning, that we through patience
and comfort of the Scriptures might
have hope.-'— Romans, xv, 4.